Their Power

Chapter Three Hundred-Thirty-Seven - Their Power

Laurel noticed Sorren being quiet and mindlinked Zeldris to ask about the meaning of the words. Despite their distance, she reached him and asked him to ask Thales.

But Zeldris answered instead. "It means Power Drain. Zacht is a negative magic word like to take away, so Zena Zacht means draining power from whatever. It's usually used with Zena, so I don't like it."

Laurel nodded slowly and disconnected the link. So the trick was Sorren's mother had drained her mother's power to weaken her before killing.

That should be why her mother had seemed so weak to fight. Magic always made even the strong, to be powerless, even simple magic words.

She told this to Sorren and waited for his reaction. He still had unbelief on his face.